Python & XML

Name

Document — Inherits Node

Synopsis

The Document interface is the object representation of an entire XML document. It contains all of the root elements, as well as the document type. The contained child objects of the Document have their ownerDocument attribute associated with this parent.

doctype

Contains the Document Type Declaration associated with the document. The value is read-only, and cannot be modified in DOM Level 2.

documentElement

Represents the root element of the document. As you work with the DOM, dealing with elements is a natural thing, and being able to quickly extract the root element of any document object is desirable.

implementation

The DOMImplementation object that handles this document.

createAttribute( name )

Creates an Attr object with the name supplied. Support for namespaces is provided with the createAttributeNS method.

createAttributeNS( namespaceURI, qualifiedName )

Does essentially the same task as createAttribute( name ), however it creates the attribute with the given namespaceURI.

createCDATASection( data )

Creates and returns a CDATA node section with the supplied data.

createComment( data )

Creates and returns a comment node.

createDocumentFragment( )

Creates and returns an empty DocumentFragment object.

createElement( tagname )

Creates an element with the given element tagname. Returns an Element object.

createElementNS( namespaceURI, qualifiedName )

Same as createElement; however the namespaceURI is associated with the element.

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